Art therapy tips for preparing a child for school from Victoria Nazarevich

1. Get used to the space. Take your child to school, take a walk and draw… classrooms and corridors. Watch this album over and over again.

2. We form effective activity. Copy any images through carbon paper or translucent paper and make them very similar to the original.

3.Modeling social contacts. Create a puppet class and teacher. And play with the child different situations from the simplest … – “I want to go to the toilet”, and up to conflict situations.

4. Draw images of faces with different emotions… and try to draw something with your child that will help lift or improve mood. Make such an album for a good mood.

5. Teach your child to the school rhythm. Draw self-portraits on the theme “I am a student” in different situations: I get up to school, I have breakfast before school, I go to school … and so on until the evening.

6. Learn to accept differences – form tolerance. Pick up pictures or photographs of different school situations from joyful to embarrassing and discuss with your child, let this set be a silent helper for the child in the further process of getting used to others.

7. Strengthen your hand and develop fine motor skills. Decorate with wax pencils, knead the sculptural plasticine and draw with it, sculpt from clay.

Victoria Nazarevich